"In The Spotlight" IC 63 Ghost of Cassiopeia (Dale Penkala)

Celestial hemisphere: Northern · Constellation: Cassiopeia (Cas) · Contains: HD5777 · HD5890 · IC 63 · LBN 622 · LBN 623 · LBN 625 · Sh2-185 · gamma Cas nebula

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"In The Spotlight" IC 63 Ghost of Cassiopeia

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I've been wanting to shoot this again because my son loves this object so I finally decided to do so and incorporated Ha data with RGB stars. Originally I shot just the RGB data then added the Ha data through pixel math in PI. Although I like the final image I think I added to much Ha and may go back and reprocess it at some point. I'm also going to attempt an SHO/HSO version and see if I like the results.

One thing I really kind of like is the glow from Gamma Cas (Navi) because it looks like a slight spotlight shining on IC 63. Some find it offending but I just think it adds something to the image so I left it in there.

I used my L-Pro for the RGB data and photometrically color calibrated for star color accuracy. For the Ha I used my ALP-T filter and extracted the Ha in APP. All processing was done thru APP and post processed in PI & Gimp.

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Description: Red channel adjustment

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Title: A Portrait!

Description: This is a portrait of just the Ghost part of the nebula. My son Austin wanted this image and I let him guide me to the slight color adjustments that was made. I also used another layer of Ha luminance to pull more detail out of the nebula as well.

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Title: Graduation picture LOL

Description: My son like this image so much he asked me to put him in the wide field shot for his graduation picture. So I did LOL

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RA (center)	01h00m00s.851
RA (top/left)	00h57m45s.713
RA (top/right)	01h00m00s.980
RA (bottom/right)	01h02m15s.452
RA (bottom/left)	01h00m01s.373

Dec (center)	+60°57′23″.71
Dec (top/left)	+60°56′26″.13
Dec (top/right)	+60°41′01″.20
Dec (bottom/right)	+60°58′13″.69
Dec (bottom/left)	+61°13′49″.31

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